evenlong 
One the upper syde make holys evenelunyt, as many as 
thou wylt. Porkington MS. 
evenly (e'vn-li), m/. [< ME. rn-iili/, 
i / ni nice, < AS. efcnlice, evenly, equally, < <-j<-iili<; 
adj., even, equal, < rj'en, even, + -lie, -ly 1 .] 1. 
With an even, level, or smooth surface; with- 
out roughness, or elevations and depressions ; 
without inequalities ; uniformly: as, the field 
slopes rn-nlij to tin- river. 
A palish cli .-'</ and smoothly spread. 
.ViV //. Walton. 
Z. In an even or equal manner ; so as to pro- 
duce or possess equality of parts, proportions, 
force, or the like: as, to divide anything - 
in the middle; they are evenly matched. 
All men know that there is no great art in dividing 
evenly of those things which are subject to number and 
measure. Jtaleigh, Hist World, Pref., p. 60. 
3f. In an equal degree or proportion; to an 
equal extent ; equally. 
But thi> sovereyne good (quod she) that is eveneliche pur- 
posed tn tin- ^ooil folk and to badde. 
Chaucer, Boethfus, iv. prose 2. 
The surface of the sea la evenly distant from the centre 
of the i arlli Brerewood. 
4. Without inclination toward either side; 
equally distant from extremes; impartially; 
without bias or variation. 
You serve a great and gracious master, and there is a 
most hopeful young prince ; it behoves you to carry your- 
self wisely and evenly between them both. 
Bacon, Advice to Villiers. 
5. Smoothly; straightforwardly; harmoniously. 
Charity and self-love become coincident, and doth run 
together evenly in one channel. Barrow, Works, I. xxv. 
Since ... we are so apt to forget God's administration 
of the great affairs below, when they go on evenly and 
regularly, he is pleased, I say. by awakening notices, now 
and then to put us in mind of it. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. vli. 
6f. Straightway. 
Eche man was esed euenli at ill.-. 
Wanted hem no thing that the! haue wold. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6SS8. 
Evenly even. See ecenl, a. 
even-minded (e'vn-min"ded), a. [< even 1 + 
mind + -rd'*. Equiv. to L. icqvanimis: see 
lflKMftNMM.1 Having equanimity. 
even-mindedly (e'vn-mln*ded-li), adv. With 
equanimity. 
evenness (e'vn-nes), n. [< ME. evennes, -nesse, < 
AS. efeniiys, equality, equity, < efen, even, + -nyg, 
-ness.] 1. The state of being even, level, or 
smooth ; equality of surface : as, the evenness of 
the ground ; the evenness of a fluid at rest. 
The explication of what is said concerning the evenness 
of the surface of the lunar spots. 
Derhc.m, Astro-Theology, Pref. 
2. Uniformity; regularity; equality: as, even- 
ness of motion. 
Tlieiu i. f i-ntli-iiicu will learn of my admired reader an 
eveiauii of voice and delivery. Steele, Spectator, No. 147. 
3. Equal distance from either extreme ; free- 
dom from inclination to either side ; impartial- 
ity. 
A crooked stick is not straitened unless it be bent as 
far on the clear contrary side, that so it may settle itself 
at the length in a middle estate of ermnea between both. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
In her lap she held a perpendicular or level, as the en- 
sign of cn'itm'*s and rest. 
B. Jonson, King James's Coronation Entertainment. 
4. Calmness; equality of temper ; freedom from 
perturbation ; equanimity. 
He bore the ions with great composure and evenness of 
mind. Hooker. 
We ... are likely to perish . . . unless we correct 
thiiM - aii'l natural indispositions, and reduce 
them to the evennesses of \irtnr. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 103. 
So mock'd, so spurn'd. so baited two whole days 
I lost myself and fell from evenness, 
And rail'd. 
TenniiMiH. sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham. 
even-servantt, . [ME.] A fellow-servant. 
Mi - MM tfmiiit Ml down ami prayed him. 
II ,;,/,,. M,,l. xviii. -.11. 
even-song (e'vn-8ong),_. [< ME. evensong, 
i-rrxiinii. or -./;/. < AS. iffensniKj (= Dan. aften- 
.-<//!;/>. < irfni. evening. '+ smifi, gesang, song.] 
1. In the Antjlicnn Ch., a form of worship ap- 
pointed to be said or sung at evening. Known 
as n sin r.s- in the Roman Catholic Church. Lee's 
Thus the yonge kyng entred into Reynes, the Saturday 
Bfrnfr*. tr. of Kroissart's Chrou., I. eerl\i\ 
Again, both in matins and in evensong, is idolatry main- 
tained fin i;,nl\ seiucc. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1863), II. 201. 
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After nentong, they may meet their sweethearts, and 
dance aboute a mayiule. llurlun, Anat. of Mel., p. 51H. 
2. A song or hymn sung at evening. 
Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, 
I woo, to hear thy even-tony. 
Millon, II Penseroso, I. 64. 
S. The time of even-song ; evening. 
He tuned his notes both rven-tony and morn. Dnideti. 
Also evening-song. 
even-start (e r vn-star), . [< ME. evensterre, < 
AS. atfensteorra (= D. avondster = Or. abendstern 
= Dun. aj'tenstjerne), evening star, < Sfen, even, 
+ steorra, star.] The evening star. 
event 1 (e-venf), n. [= OF. event = Sp. Pg. It. 
evento, <*L. erentus (cventu-), also eventum (prop, 
neut. pp.), an event, occurrence, < evenire, pp. 
eventus, happen, fall out, come out, < e, out, + 
venire, come: see venture, and cf. advent, con- 
vent, invent, etc., convene, event, etc.] 1. That 
which comes, arrives, or happens ; that which 
falls out; especially, an occurrence of some 
importance; a distinctly marked incident: as, 
the succession of events. 
There Is one event to the righteous and to the wicked. 
Eccles. Ix. 2. 
Do I forebode Impossible event*, 
And tremble at vain dreams ? 
Cmvper, Task, v. 491. 
Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 
And coming eventi cast their shadows before. 
Campbell, Lochiel's Warning. 
There is no greater event in life than the appearance of 
new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress 
of the character which draws them. 
Emerton, Domestic Life. 
2. The consequence of anything ; that in which 
an action, an operation, or a series of operations 
terminates ; the issue ; conclusion ; end. 
Of my ill-boding Dream 
Behold the dire Event. 
Congreve, Semele, ill. 8. 
My temporal concerns are slowly rectifying themselves ; 
I am astonished at my own indifference to their event. 
Shelley, ill Dowden, I. 409. 
One God, one law, one element, 
And one far-off divine event, 
To which the whole creation moves. 
Tennytun, In Memoriam, Conclusion. 
3. In public games and sports, each contest or 
single proceeding in a program or series: as, 
the events of the day were a bicycle-race, a foot- 
race, high jumps, etc. ; the steeplechase was a 
spirited event. 4. A contingent, probable, or 
possible happening ; a coming to pass ; in the 
theory of probabilities, anything which may or 
may not be ; any general state of things con- 
sidered as having a probability : as, in the event 
of his death his interest will lapse.- compound 
event, that which in reference to its probability is re- 
garded as consisting in the concatenation or coincidence 
of two or more different event*. Double event, two 
races, or other trials of strength or skill, upon the winning 
of both of which depends the winning of a certain wager 
or stake. Simple event, in the doctrine of probabili- 
ties, something whose probability is deduced from direct 
observation. =8yn. 1. Event, Occurrence, Incident, Cir- 
cumstance, affair. An event is of more importance than an 
occurrence ; the word is generally applied to the larger 
transactions In history. Occurrence Is literally that which 
meets us in our progress through life, and does not con- 
nect itself with the past as an event does. An incident is 
that which falls into a state of things to which It does not 
primarily belong: as, the incident* of a journey. It is 
applied to matters of minor importance. Circumstance 
does not necessarily mean anything that happens or takes 
place, but may simply mean one of the surrounding or 
accompanying conditions of an occurrence, incident, or 
event ; it Is also applied to incidents of minor moment 
which take place along with something of more impor- 
tance. A person giving an account of a campaign might 
dwell on the leading eventt which it produced, might 
mention some of its striking occurrence*, might refer to 
some remarkable incidents which attended it, and might 
give details of the favorable or adverse circumstance* by 
which it was accompanied. See exigency. 
event 1 t (e-venf), . [< L. erentus, pp. of eve- 
n in; come out: see the noun.] I. intrans. To 
come out; break forth. 
O that thou saw'st my heart, or did'st behold 
The place from which that scalding sigh evented .' 
B. Jonson, Case is Altered, v. 3. 
II. trans. To bring to pass; execute. 
There are diners things which are praised and dispraised, 
as deedes doen by worthy men and polliries euented by 
great warriors. Sir T. Wilson, Art of Rhetoric, p. 11. 
event 2 t (e-venf), v. t. [< P. erenter, fan. Cf. 
erentilate'.] To fan ; cool. 
A loose and mi-id vapour that is fit 
T' event his searching beams. 
Marlnn-f and Chapman, Hero and Leander, iii. 
Tbe fervour of so pure a flame 
As this my city hears might lose the name 
Without the apt mntinii of her heat. 
B. Jonton, King James's Coronation Entertainment. 
eventual 
even-tempered (e'vn-tem'perd), a. Having a 
placid temper. 
eventeratet (e-ven'te-rat), v. t. [Prop. *eveu- 
trnte (el. equiv. P. eventrer), < L. r, out, + venter 
(i-eiitr-), belly : see cruUi; ventral. Ct.eventra- 
tion.] To eviscerate ; disembowel. 
A bear which the hunters eventerated or opened. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., HI. 6. 
eventful (e-vent'ful), a. [<. event + -fid.] Full 
of events or incidents; attended or character- 
ized by important or striking occurrences: as, 
an crnttful reitfn; an irnitt'iil journey. 
Last scene of all, 
That ends this strange eventful history, 
Is second childishness. 
Shot., As you Like it, II. 7. 
The Colonial period, as I regard It, was the charmed, 
eventful infancy and youth of our national life. 
K. Choate, Addresses, p. 44. 
eventide (e'vn-tid), . [< ME. even-tide; < even? 
+ tide.] The time of evening. [Archaic.] 
And thel lelden hondes on hem and puttlden hem into 
warde into the morewe, for It was then euen-tide. 
Wyclif, Acts Iv. S. 
Isaac went out to meditate In the Held at the eventide. 
Gen. xxiv. 63. 
eventilatet (e-ven'ti-lat), v. t. [< L. erentilatu*, 
pp. of i < i- n till in; set the air in motion, fan (> 
OF. eventiler, esventiler, ventilate), < e, out, + 
ventilare, toss, swing, winnow, fan: see venti- 
late.] 1. To ventilate; sift by fanning. Cock- 
eram. Hence 2. To discuss. 
Having well eventuated it [another circumstance], we 
shall And that it depends upon the same principles. 
Sir JT. Digty, Sympathetic Powder. 
eventilationt (e-ven-ti-la'shon), n. [= OF. es- 
ventilation, < Li. as if "ereniilatio(n-), < eventi- 
lare, fan : see eventilate.] 1. The act of venti- 
lating or fanning; ventilation. 
Now for the nature of this heat, it is not a destructive 
violent heat, as that of fire, but a generative gentle heat, 
joined with moisture, nor needs It air for eventilation. 
Howell, Letters, I. vi. 36. 
That there is really such a thing as vital flame Is an opin- 
ion of some moderns : [and) . . . that it requires constant 
eemtilation, through the trachea and pores of the body. 
Bp. Berkeley, Slris, | 205. 
Hence 2. Discussion; debate. Bailey, 1731. 
eventless (e-venf les), a. [< erent + -less.] 
Without event or incident ; monotonous. 
Upon the tranquil little islands her life had been event- 
lest, and all the fine possibilities of her nature were like 
flowers that never bloomed. 
d. W. Curtit, Prne and I, p. 121. 
eventognath (e-ven'to-gnath), n. One of the 
Eventognatlti. 
Eventognathi (ev-en-tog'na-thi), n. pi. [NL., 
< Or. n; well, + FVTOJ-, within, + ywiflof, the 
jaw.] A large suborder of fresh-water phy- 
sostomous fishes, of most parts of the world: 
so called on account of the peculiar develop- 
ment of the lower pharyngeal bones. The brain- 
case is produced between the orbits ; the basis cranii is 
simple, and the anus is normal in position ; there is a dis- 
tinct dorsal fln ; and the lower pharyngeal bones are fal- 
ciform, and parallel with the branchial arches. The group 
embraces the cyprinids, catostomids, and cobitlds; it is 
rated by some authors as an order equivalent to Plecto- 
ttpondyli, by others as a suborder of plectospondyloua 
ttshes. 
eventognathous (ev-en-tog'na-thus), . Hav- 
ing the characters of the Eventognathi. 
eventourt, n. A corrupt form of aventure. 
eventration (e-ven-tra'shon), . [< L. e, out, 
+ venter (ventr-), belly, -\--ation. Cf. F. even- 
trer. See eventerate.] In med.: (a) The con- 
dition of a monster in which the abdominal 
viscera are contained in a membranous sac pro- 
jecting from the abdomen. (6) Ventral hernia, 
(c) The pendulous condition of the lower ab- 
domen in some women who have borne many 
children, (d) The escape of a considerable part 
of the intestine from a wound of the abdomen. 
eventual (e-ven'tu-al), . [= D. erciitueel = 
Dan. Sw. eventuef,'< F. erentuel = Sp. Pg. even- 
tual = It. eventuale, < L. eventus (eventu-), an 
event: see evenfl.] 1. Pertaining to the event 
or issue ; happening or to happen or exist 
finally ; ultimate : as, his eventual success was 
unexpected. 
It Is curious to observe the prophetic accuracy with 
which he discerned, not only the existence, but the even- 
tual resources of the western world. 
Prescott, Ferd. andlsa., II. 18. 
Eventual provision for the payment of the public secu- 
rities. Hamilton. 
Perhaps there was, some idea of the frentual union of 
Belgium with France. Quarterly Rev., CXLVI. 119. 
2. Contingent upon a future or as yet unknown 
event; depending upon an uncertain event; 
that may happen or come about: as, an even- 
tual succession. 
